You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn separe," in literal translation, "God gives but doesn't share." This meant... God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us.

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place